South Koreans in the Debt Crisis

"This is the first book in English on a very important topic: how South Korea became a neoliberal state during the period when the 'IMF Crisis' affected the whole society. Jesook Song shows how neoliberalism as a governing technology works in everyday life. Not only the government but also the mass media and progressive intellectuals were involved in the construction of the categories of 'deserving' and 'undeserving' welfare recipients."--Seung-kyung Kim, author of "Class Struggle or Family Struggle? The Lives of Women Factory Workers in South Korea"